Regular Expression help

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I want to do something with Regular Expressions. My problem is like this.
In a given string, i have to find the occurrence of a given word, that is not inside the <A HREF ..... </A> tags.

For example in the text

this is some string Corporate <A HREF="#" onClick="popup('Glossary.asp',128,'Corporate Risk Management')">Corporate Risk Management</a>, this is corporate end of my string

i want to find all the occurrence of Corporate that are not between <A HREF and </A> tags.

Can any body halp me?

Thanks in advance
Ardian

[sdizier]

Here is a basic example to get you started, let me know if you have questions

<?
$string = "<A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"popup('Glossary.asp',128,'Corporate Risk Management')\">Corporate Risk Management</a>";
$string = explode('onClick',$string);
print $string[1] = str_replace('Corporate','<strong>Corporate</strong>',$string[1]);
?>

Slan

[lobobr]

Here's a quite simple solution:

preg_match("/[^{>]Corporate/i",$str);}

The "^" character negates the match, so it will find any occurence of Corporate that is not like ">Corporate".

Please tell me if it works, I've never used the ^ character before, so it's just a theory.

Hope it helps you.

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Thank you Slan, but I'm not sure if you understood my problem

I want to find out the occurrences of Corporate that are not between <A HREF ...> AND </A> tags. In the example that i provided, there are 4 occurrences, but i want to find only 2 of them. the one that is before <a href> and the other that is after </a>

Thanks

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I still need your help

Does anybody have any idea?

Thanks in advance
Ardian

[xblue]

Here is one that is most similar with respects to "replace something unless it is either enclosed in <a href=...> </a> tags or within a tag":

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10224668

Once you got the idea, I think you should be able to modify it according to your needs.